I've done yum upgrades on 3 different systems. All ended up fine. 1. Go to RPMS for FC5 and look for the rpm fedora-release. Install that manually. 2. Run yum update yum to make sure you have the newest yum. 3. Run yum update That will take about 30 minutes to download a list of all packages and their interdependency information, then it will ask you if it is OK to proceed. If have seen it go faster if run during the middle of the night on a 100baseT ethernet, while a "cable modem" system took longer than 30 minutes. If it can find updates for all of your RPMs without breaking any dependencies, it will ask permission to start downloading and installing. It will probably find some RPMs in your system that it does not recognize. If that happens, the yum program will exit, but it will tell you which RPMS you currently have that it can't manage. So go ahead and remove the trouble makers manually, and run yum update again. As soon as it is able to square out all update dependencies, the download and install will take about 2 or 3 hours. I promise this has worked on 3 different systems for me. > > On 4/7/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Devon Harding wrote: > > > I have a FC3 system that cannot boot from CD or floppy. Is it > > > possible to upgrade to FC5 without a CD or Floppy? Yum? -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
